bed bug

In the past 15 years or so, the bed bug, hasbecome common all over the United States, Australia, Europe and parts of Asia.Its comeback has surprised many people because until recently, the pest hadbeen rare for some 60 years in these parts of the world.

在过去15年间，床虱在美国、澳大利亚、欧洲及部分亚洲地区都比较常见。它的回归让许多人都觉得很震惊，因为从过去的60年到现在这种虫子在世界上的上述地区都很罕见。

During that time, somepeople didn't even know the bed bug existed. They thought it was a made-up creaturefrom the nursery rhyme 。

那时，有些人甚至都不知道床虱的存在，以为它们只是童谣里的虚构生物。

Jeff White is an insect expert who hosts Bed Bug TV on the website BedBug Central.

Jeff White是一名害虫专家，他在网站臭虫中心主持臭虫电视节目。

One of the problems, according to researchers and the pesticide industry, is that there are few chemicals on the market approved for use on mattresses that are effective at reducing bed bug numbers.

根据研究者和杀虫剂工业会报道：其中一个难题是只有很少的化学药品被批准使用在市场的床垫上，但这些化学药品无疑是减少臭虫数量最有效的工具。

The federal government is waking up to what has become a growing nightmare in many parts of the country& a bed bug outbreak.

联邦政府正认识到：臭虫大批量的爆发已成为全国很多地区必须面对的难题。

Keep your room clean and you will keep the bed bug away.

保持房间洁净,臭虫就会远离你.

But once a bed bug has gorged on a meal-usually human blood, and usually while you are asleep-it plumps up like aminiature balloon.

但是如果他们一旦吸食人类血液吃饱后（通常在人类熟睡的情况下），他们的身体则又开始像气球一样鼓起来。

A common household pest is the bed bug.

常见的家居害虫是臭虫.

If you haven't met a bed bug, countyourself lucky.

如果你还没有见过床虱，那你就算幸运的了。

He installed a bug under the hostess's bed when she was not in.

他趁女主人外出时在她的床下安了一个窃听器.

The venue the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington has had no reported bed bug problems, according to a popular online registry, so at least conference participants will be sleeping tight.

会议地点选在了阿林顿的希尔顿水晶城酒店，根据一个受欢迎的在线调查结果：因从来没有报道过臭虫问题，所以这次参会者至少将会睡得不够踏实。